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Some wishes at the new year
Winter is upon us, 2007 is almost over, and so once again we turn our thoughts to New Year’s wishes of the community kind.
TALKING POINT
Hudson Yards: All is not quiet on the western front
By Andrew Berman
The five bids for development of the West Side rail yards, covering approximately 30 acres between 10th and 12th Avenues and 30th and 33rd Streets, are now in.
NOTEBOOK
Henrietta Yurchenco: ethnomusicologist, activist, grandmother
By Larry Littman
At 91, she was still a work in progress. She had lived a very full life, but despite ill health she had to go on because there were still books to write, music to discover, talent to encourage and wrongs to right.
OBITUARY
Henrietta Yurchenco, folk pioneer, ethnomusicologist, 90
By Lincoln Anderson
Henrietta Yurchenco, a renowned ethnomusicologist who played an influential role in the New York folk music scene, died Dec. 10 after a short illness. She was 90.
IN PICTURES
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WORLD
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Chelsea Now photo by Jefferson Siegel
Sue Erickson (lower right), executive assistant of Chelsea’s Origins Church, acts as “Worship Leader” at a recent service. Origins has built a substantial following among young twenty-somethings looking to combine social activism with non-doctrianarian teachings. See story and more photos.
 West Side residents tackle 11th Avenue rezoning
By Chris Lombardi
The rezoning of 11th Avenue north of the Javits Center officially began last week, with a public forum co-hosted by Community Board 4 and the Department of City Planning, which are jointly developing a new zoning proposal.
 Pier 57 process is barely afloat three years later
By Lincoln Anderson
Although there has been intense focus on Pier 40 at W. Houston St. lately as the process to pick a possible developer for that pier is nearing completion, another Hudson River Park pier, Pier 57 at W. 16th St., is also getting renewed attention.
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 Stabbing sparks inquiry into possible gang ties at Rustin HS
By Chris Lombardi
In the wake of several violent incidents in December involving students at Chelsea’s Bayard Rustin Educational Complex, local legislators and community leaders are demanding that the city be proactive in preventing such problems.
 Task Force challenges Rudin on St. Vincents
By Albert Amateau
Neighborhood groups involved in the Greenwich Village Community Task Force on the redevelopment of St. Vincent’s Hospital have drafted an alternative to the current plan that would reduce the height of the new hospital from the proposed 321 feet down to 190 feet.
Council’s assault on lewdness may ensnare gay men
BY DUNCAN OSBORNE
In October of 2006, a woman had fallen asleep while riding the A train early in the morning.
 Origins Church draws young congregants to Chelsea
By Rachel Breitman
A drummer, two guitarists, a keyboardist and a pair of vocalists tune their instruments on a Chelsea stage in front of a chattering crowd of casually dressed twenty-somethings.
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Arts & Entertainment
 Rebel with a cause
By Leonard Quart
Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud‘s “Persepolis” has already won the Award for Best Animated film from the New York Film Critics Circle, and will probably win a number of others by the time the award season is over. Based on Satrapi’s own imaginative, autobiographical graphic novel, the film is vividly evocative of the murderous repression of Iranian society, and the coming of age of an emotionally volatile young woman struggling to shape an independent self.
 Still in love with the Little Tramp
By JERRY TALLMER
Edward Albee won’t remember this, but once, one Saturday afternoon many years ago, when he was just getting recognized as a playwright of some consequence, he was standing in line at an uptown movie theater, waiting for the show to break and a seat to become available, and so, as it happened, was I. We nodded hello, and then the show did break and the people poured out: fathers and kids for the most part, the Saturday-afternoon ritual of divorced daddies touching base with their offspring.
KOCH ON FILM
 A cineaste’s feast, but only for himself
By Steven Snyder
It’s impossible not to feel respect for director Francis Ford Coppola and his much-hyped comeback “Youth Without Youth,” a film of bold intentions and dramatic flourishes. Like so few films made in today’s world — perhaps matched this year only by “There Will Be Blood” — it screams out for attention, eagerly presenting the audience with the assorted tricks waiting up its sleeves. But therein lies the problem: Admiration is not the same as adoration, and respecting a filmmaker’s ambitions is vastly different than getting swept up in them.
 ‘Once,’ the season’s indie sleeper, returns
By Steven Snyder
Given its low-key style, and its sweet sentimental side, John Carney’s “Once” was an easy film for movie writers to overlook this year, a grassroots Irish phenomenon that arrived on American shores with little pomp or fanfare.
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Courtesy Paul Sharpe Projects
Evocations Lenore RS Lim presents a new body of work based on flower blossoms, using spitbite, intaglio, and Chine Colle. Thru Jan. 5. Paul Sharpe Projects, 547 W 27th St, 5th Fl. 646-221-8718.
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